Ben Folds Reveals New Album

Ben Folds is one special dude. He's collaborated with William Shatner and "Weird Al Yankovic. He formed a band with Ben Lee and Ben Kweller called the Bens. He used to regularly play basketball with Beck and Elliott Smith. And he's written yukster piano jams like "Rocking the Suburbs and "Song For the Dumped alongside truly serious and poignant songs like "Brick. It seems like everything he does is notable.

Such is the case with Way To Normal, his first LP since 2005s Songs for Silverman. The record is produced by Dennis Herring (Modest Mouse, Elvis Costello) and promises a duet with Regina Spektor on "You Dont Know Me, an experimental jam that involves Altoids called "Free Coffee and his typically irreverent songwriting with tracks like "Bitch Went Nuts.

"If you ask loads of women what went wrong in a relationship, theyre going to give you a variety of answers, Folds said, explaining his colourfully titled new song to Paste Magazine. "But you ask men, especially at a bar somewhere, and theyre gonna go, Uh, bitch went nuts!